Foreign Trade Changes in Poland and Slovakia as an Effect of Europeanization before and after the Accession
Slovak University of Agriculture Scientific Papers
10 Pages Posted: 31 Mar 2008
Date Written: 2007
Abstract
Integration processes in Europe as well as globalization trends create new possibilities for enterprises. The accession of ten new Member States in 2004 and additional two in 2007 create new possibilities for enterprises, especially as far as foreign trade in concerned. The paper elaborates on internationalizing of exchange sphere of enterprises in Poland and Slovakia, which is mainly realized by foreign trade. Thus the paper focuses on export and import transactions as the most popular form of internationalization of enterprises. The Paper presents two case studies of new member States, that is Poland and Slovakia. For Poland the authors analyzed the foreign trade turnover in the period before and after the enlargement, while for Slovakia the authors outlined the basic trends in Slovak foreign trade and focused mainly on the trade exchange within the Visegrád Group, also called the Visegrád Four (V4), which made up of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of accession on the value and structure of foreign trade in two selected new Member States, that is Slovakia and Poland.
Keywords: foreign trade, europeanization, internationalization, integration
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